An artist’s rendering of the new CARTI cancer center planned for west Little Rock.

The opening of CARTI's $90 million cancer center in the fall of 2015 can't come soon enough for CARTI President and CEO Jan Burford. In December 2011, the nonprofit CARTI was treating about 3,000 patients a year. CARTI then began adding doctor groups, and it is now seeing about 20,000 patients annually, Burford said.